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MISSOURI.

GALVANIC BELT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,364, dated October 16. 1888.

Application filed June 30, 1888.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN D. GRANGER, of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Electro-Galvanic g Body-Belt, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to improvements in electro-galvanic body-belts; and it may besaid to consist in the devices and the peculiar construction, combination, and arrangement of devices hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, which illustrate the manner of carrying out my invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the belt constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 isa detail view of one of thebattery-cells,shown on an enlarged scale, with the elements which compose it detached from each other. Fig.3 is a perspective view of a cell intact. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the belt having the battery detached therefrom. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the inner battery-case, and Fig. 6 is a rear view of the outer battery-case.

By the belt, which will now be described, electricity can be applied from the body-battery for medicinal purposes to the seat of disease on any and all parts of the body without the necessity of removing the belt from the waist.

A prominent feature of this belt is the peculiar construction of its battery, as to its V durability, repairability, adj ustability, compactness, and power of electricity in proportion to its size, &c. Another important feature is the devices used for preventing the positive current of electricity from burning and blistering the flesh at point of coalition with body.

Other features will be hereinafter noted and claimed.

The carrying-belt A is preferably formed of a continuous piece of elastic material, having its ends united by means of movable buckles B, located thereon, and provided with hooks and a suitable connecting ring or 1ink,O, which is engaged by the hooks on the buckles, as more clearly shown in Fig. 1. The battery,

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which will be presently described, is located in an inner case, N, of suitable water-proof material, and this in turn is located in outer case, M, the ends of which are closed by clamping-buckles E, provided with hooks a at their projecting ends,which engage with rings 1), secured to the outer surface of belt A at suitable distance apart. By this construction the battery can be very readily detached from the belt for repairs, charging, or cleaning, or reversed upon the belt, so that the polarity will be changed,if so desired. The current of electricity is conveyed from the battery and applied to the body through the means of adjustable and movable insulated cords N and P, the cord N being preferably attached to the negative end of the battery and the cord P to the positive end thereof. The manner of this attachment will be presently described. Said cords are of sufficient length to reach the most remote part of the bodysuch as the soles of the feet, palms of the hands, &c.-and they are provided at their free ends with suitable metallic disks or electrodes, 16 and 17, respectively, which are attached thereto by means of small snap-hooks 12. By means of this arrangement the electricity can be applied to all parts of the body without removing the belt from its normal position around the waist of the wearer.

0 indicates a chain or cluster of disks or electrodes 10, which are connected to each other by means of small snap -hooks 12 or other suitable devices, and suspended from the supportingbelt A by means of small rings 13. This cluster of disks has no connection with the battery other than that given to it by attaching one of the cords N or P thereto. Of course it is obvious that either cord may be connected to the cluster of disks, as desired. A convenient way of applying electricity to the body of the wearer is that shown in Fig. 1, in which the electrode 16 is suspended from the cluster 0, while the opposite electrode, 17 is suspended from the opposite side of belt by means of snap hook 12, which is suspended from ring (1. This is simply given as an illustration of the many ways in which the movable and adjustable electrodes 16 and 17 may be manipulated during use. By means of the 100 cluster 0 the positive current of electricity will be disseminated or divided into several branching currents, thereby reducing the intensity without diminishing the quantity and applying it through said cluster of suspended electrodes to the. flesh of the wearer without any sensation of burning and blistering. In this cluster the points of contact are constantly changing by reason of the movements of the body, as will be readily understood.

The battery of this belt is preferably in the form of a metallic chain, consisting of a series of cells, G, removably hinged together, and which in turn are each constructed as follows, (see Figs. 2 and 3):

J is a copper plate of suitable size having one end turned up in the form of a hinge, 20, and the pliable corners of the other end turned up over one or more plates of zinc, I. A suitably-sized piece of felt or other absorbing material, 50, is located between the zinc and the copper, as shown. At the hinge end of copper-plate J a tongue, j, is formed and bent outwardlyand over the felt, and also over the inner end of a copper coupling-plate, L,which operation locks the felt and zinc in place at the end that is opposite the turned-down corners, and also looks the inner end of copper couplingplate L in position. The outer or free end of coupling-plate L is also formed in the shape of a hinge, 21, which engages with the portion 20 of the next adjacent cell, and the cells thus formed are removably locked together by means of pintle H, to which latter the conducting-cords at either end of the battery may be attached.

If it is desired to use only a limited number of cells, the conducting-cords are accordingly secured to corresponding pintles.

The coupling-plate L is preferably secured to the zinc plate I by turning its inner end over the zinc plate and by means of a rivet or other device, so that said coupling-plate will be more firmly held in position. This is preferably done by means of a hollow rivet or eyelet, d, as in that way a hole or passage is formed in both plates,which hole, extending, asit does, inwardly to the felt, forms a passage-way for the exciting-liquid, and thereby hastens materially the operation of charging the cell. To this end an aperture, 6, is also formed in the copper plate J. The battery is charged by soaking it in an acid-such as vinegar-as batteries of this class are usually charged. This battery is durable because all bearings, clasps, hinges, and joints are made of copper; repairable because new zinc'plates can readily be inserted by turning up the corners of the copper plates; adjustable as to power be cause the power is proportioned to the number of cells made use of. The power of this battery can be adjusted to suit the condition and strength of the wearer, as has been described. There may be as many or as few cells a connected in electric circuit as may be desired, as each cell has a separate and distinct pintle, to which the conducting-cord may be attached; compact because eachcell has direct connection with the next adjacent cell without loss of space or the use of links or cables.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A galvanic belt arranged and constructed with a cluster of metallic disks or electrodes suspended from the supporting-band and a suitable battery and conductors connected with said clusters of disks or electrodes, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a galvanic belt, the combination, with the supporting-band, of a cluster of metallic disks or electrodes connected to each other and suspended from said supporting-band or other portion of the belt, the battery located in a suitable case or cases, and conducting-cords which conduct the battery-current through said cluster, as described.

3. In a galvanic belt, the supporting-band A, carrying the battery. in combination with conducting-cords N and I, connected to the battery by means of removable pintles H, and metallic disks or electrodes 16 and 17, carried by the free ends of said cords, for the purpose set forth.

4. In a galvanic belt, the chain or cluster of electrodes 0, made up of a series of metallic disks, 10, and connected together by means of hooks 12 or detachable connections.

5. A galvanic cell for batteries of the character described, consisting of copper plate J, of suitable size, having a hinge at one end and the pliable corners of the other end turned up over a plate of zinc, I, a coupling or conducting plate, L, located on the outer surface of said zinc plate and connected thereto, and a sheet of absorbent material located between said copper and zinc plates, substantially as described.

6. Abattery of the character described made up of a series of cells, G, the latter being composed of copper plates J, of suitable size, having one end turned or bent in the form of a hinge and the pliable corners of the other end turned up over aplate of zinc, I, coupling-plate L, located on the outer surface of the zinc plate and connected to the hinge of the next adjacent cell, and a sheet of absorbent material located between said zinc and copper plates, as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of-two witnesses.

EDWIN D. GRANGER.

\Vitnesses:

S. S. SCOTT, A. O. TERRY. 

